Does Commented HTML Code Get Spidered?

[lbohen]

I have a change, perhaps temporary, to my web store that I will be making. I am wondering if the code that I will comment out () gets spidered?

[Eblan]

Crawlers ignore comment tags. They do not have any SEO impact.

[lbohen]

Does that mean the content between comment tags get spidered?

[Eblan]

It means the content between comment tags won't get spidered.

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough on my previous comment.

[TakeshiYoung]

There is a possibility that Google will crawl a link in comments, it's happened before with comments in Javascript. However, it will not have any impact at all from an SEO perspective.

[donford]

Hi Larry, that was a great question. This is why I love SEOMoz.org, there is always something to learn. I had never thought seriously about this question before, as I web developer I just figured it if I commented out html I didn't have to worry about it being crawled. After reviewing the responses I can see there may be a tad more to it then that.

Good question, good responses.